The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-02-04
Yesterday was another bad day for

Go and see McCabe & Young
minstrels at Opera House tonight.
The genial phiz of r. Roberts is nov
observed behind the gate at the County
Treasurer's office.
If the ground hog" came out of hii
hole Wednesday he must have found
the weather rather inclement.
1t is the duty of every member o.
the Building and Loan association TO at,
tend the annual meeting tomorrow eve
ming.
The lady's watch advertised in last
weeks FREE Press was the property of
Mr.. J. q. Fowler's daughter. 1t pays
to advertise.
The Ladies Society of the Presby-
terrain church will meet with Mrs. G. F.
Piper this afternoon. Six o'clock tea,
and gentlemen invited.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Ladies Relief Society will be held at
Mrs. w. B. Craig's on Monday, Feb. z,
at3p.m MRS. GEO. T. BARR, Sec'y.
Our Savior's English Lutheran
Church has extended call to Rev. A.
G. Helgesen of La Crosse, Wis, TO sue
eed Rev. X. g. Faegre, who some weeks
since rendered his resignation.
"A personal letter from Mr.. w. o.
jefferson, formerly and for several years
resident of Mankato, informs us that
he has engaged in business in Bellevue,
Ohio. His Mankato friends wish him
success.
Mr.. Oscar Bierbauer failed to find
his chicken dog, but lucky fellow that he
is, was last week presented with hand
some setter,-the donor being none
other than Mr.. Stephen Thorn. Oscar
is now happy.
On March LIST, Mr.. S. w. Burgess,
will sever his connection with Mr.. o. r.
Mather, with whom he has been engaged
for the past two or three years. Mr..
Burgess is a good business man, and he
will doubtless step into another good
situation without loss OF time.
"A good natured old gentleman step
ped into The FREE Press Office yester-
day and asked We editor: Are you
married man, or do you eat horse
radIsh?" We replied eyes," and he
walked out apparently pleased with tn g
information he had received.
Hugh Quinn, Esq, Of Mapleton went
up to East Castle Rock, Minnesota, last
week, and purchased fve-year-old
French Coach horse. Those who have
seen the animal pronounce him beauty.
Blue Earth county will soon be entitled
to the medal for the finest stock an d car
riage horses in the state.
FIVE or six of our school teachers
went down to ST. Paul Saturday and got
caught there in the blockade. They in
tended to return TO Mankato Sunday
evening, but owing to the fact that all
trains on the St. Paul & Sioux City were
abandoned that night, they did not reach
here until Monday noon.
MIR. G. L. King has been awarded
the contract for building a residence for
G. Knudsen l6x24 two stories, with adj
dition l4xl6; residence for A. Norman,
same size. and one for Griffith Owens
2Sx22 story and a half, with addition
l2x22. These houses are all to be frame
and will help materially to boom Cum
mings' Addition.
After a vacancy in the council of
about nine months, made so through
the election of Mr.. Carney as Mayor,
the position has finally been filled by
the appointment of Mr.. Chas. Wagon,
Jr. Mr.. Wagon will make a frst-class
alderman, and the Second Ward will no
doubt honor him with an election in
the spring.
Rev. +. K. Lathrop will deliver his
popular lecture OH the Coming Man"
in the Methodist Episcopal church on
Tuesday evening, Feb. s. This lecture
has been highly commended in other
places, and will no doubt command, as
it deserves, full house. Mr.. Lathrop
is known to the q. A. r. and was pastor
of the NJ. f. church in this city some
years ago. Tickets Is cents.
Sheriff Piper sold to the Willard
Cattle Company on Wednesday, EUR
nella," beautiful bay imported French
coach horse, three years old. The COM
pany will ship the horse to their rancho
in Montana, where he viii be used for
breeding purposes. The colt Is one Of
the finest coach horses ever brought to
the Northwest, and besides being hand
some, he is fine traveller.
Err B. Evans, Esq, of Garden City,
has received the appointment of assist
ant registrar of the State wheat inspect
ion department at Duluth, with salary
ofSl 200 per year. Fri will prove q
very efficient officer, and his Blue Earth
county friends are glad to know of his
selection. He took possession of his
office on the LIST day of February.
Mr.. J. T. Williams has associated
with him in the fire insurance business
his son Theodore, and hereafter the firm
will be known as j. 7. Williams & Son.
Theodore is a young man who promises
to develop extraordinary business quail
fications, and with few years added to
his age, together with the experience
that business will afford, may be ex-
pected TO prove success in life.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. w. Selleck, of Eagle
Lake, now nearing the 10th anniversary
of their marriage, have issued about one
hundred invitations to friends to be
present at their home on the evening of
the l4th inst. Mr.. and Mrs. Selleck are
numbered among our most highly re-
spected people, and those present at
the celebration of their wedding ami
versary will have a most enjoyable time.
Last Monday being the Goth ami
versary of Mrs. Reacho Polchow, her
children took advantage of the occasion,
had family reunion and spent a most
enjoyable evening. Mrs. Polchow is the
mother of Fritz, Christ. and John, and
she also has two or three married
daughters residing in the city. The
mother was presented with handsome
rocking chair. May she 1--we to see many
more anniversaries, and:.may each be as
ENJOYABLE as the last is the wish of all her
friends.
Mrs. Billinger, of Ogdensburg, n. Y.
mother of Mrs. q. M. Phillips, of this
city, and with whom she had been spend
ing the winter died Tuesday morning of
apoplexy. She had been unwell for a
day or two ureVious to her death. but